Researchers say science is bleeding in Ukraine — but they are determined to sustain their work with help from other nations.
A year into Russia’s war on Ukraine, Kseniia Minakova is rebuilding her research laboratory and her career.
As of January, 91 research and higher education institutes had been damaged; with 4 totally destroyed, according to the science ministry. Some 228 remain unharmed. The renowned Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology and the world’s largest decametre-wavelength radio telescope, which belongs to the Institute of Radio Astronomy in Kharkiv, were heavily damaged.
Komarov, who heads a staff of 60 overseeing 500 undergraduates, says the first month of the war was particularly hard, and dominated by struggles to source even basic reagents. A low point was New Year’s Eve, when Russia bombed his university, shattering more than 1,000 windows that needed to be boarded up before temperatures plunged.Credit: Taras Shevchenko National University
“To my mind it’s perfect,” says Polotska, “to provide grant support to researchers staying in Ukraine from the regions that have been severely affected by the military aggression.” Komarov thinks that international support should focus on helping Ukrainians to keep up their research and teaching within the country. Such programmes “will help us to survive to restore the scientific infrastructure after the war”, he says.Polotska says support doesn’t have to be financial. “There have been so many bottom-up initiatives, for example organizing workshops on grant management.
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